A YOUNG mum threatened with deportation because of a “bizarre” legal loophole says she can finally prove she is British after tracking down her real dad.

Christine North, of Clacton, made headlines around the world last year after a bizarre ruling left her in passport limbo.

She has lived in England for more than 25 years and talks with an Essex accent.

Christine, 33, has a National Insurance number, served on a jury twice and has voted at every election since she was 18.

But when she tried to apply for a passport for the first time to go on a family holiday to France, her nationality was questioned and she was even told she could face deportation.

That could now change after she finally managed to trace her biological father.

Read the full story on Christine's nationality battle in the Clcton Gazette, out now.